5 Basic Foot Reflexology Techniques | Reflexology

[Music] so there are 4 basic foot reflexology techniques I'm going to add one there's reflexologists named dr. Monson Addis from Spain and he does something called a press and slide which i think is really effective the other four will be thumb walking finger walking a hook and backup and rotation on the point so we'll start with thumb walking with thumb walking you're basically going to be using the little part of just this joint right so you'll just be doing that a lot of times people will say to kind of come up and back down I want to really stress that if you can come down and maintain pressure and just come up a little bit and then back down again so you're moving infinitesimal you're barely moving you can practice on your forearm here and you're gonna be doing that you're just inching ahead and again you're not going to pop up a lot of people when they're teaching that they pop up so just be sure not to do that you're going to with a foot you're gonna press down just a little and come up and press down and come up press down and come up and all sometimes just waive the foot a little bit towards me that'll allow you to go a little deeper similarly you could do finger walking with finger walking I generally use it on the top of the foot you could also use it on the sides of the foot but generally not on the bottom plantar aspect so with that you're just going to be doing the same kind of thing where you come down and come back up and back down again and you'll see I'm supporting the foot with my thumb on the other side so my thumb's moving - and you could actually move down between all of the metatarsals here hooking back up you're gonna be using your thumb and you'll go into a point and then you press down and then you're gonna pull out just a little bit it can be very deep so just be mindful and check in with your person make sure you're not hurting them so again you're gonna press down I lean in a little bit and then back up generally points that are really good to use that on are the spleen reflex and the gallbladder reflex which are on either side of the feet so with this side you'll go hook and back up rotation on a point you're going to also use that thumb walking and you're just going to rotate the foot so it's right under the metatarsal heads you come down and you just rotate over I'm actually gonna walk that what is called the diaphragm line so you go in you're gonna rotate there you can go over the entire diaphragm line again if somebody is you know really anxious or feeling stressed out that diaphragm line the solar plexus point which is right here and the adrenal gland reflex are really powerful the last point is the press and slide with dr. Monson at ease this is if you really want to get deep and you don't want to miss any points within there so you're gonna actually press down you lean in and you just slide a little bit and check in with your person make sure you're not hurting them you know you want the body to kind of kick into a place of parasympathetic you know relaxation if you go beyond that it's not going to serve them so again you press in and then you go up press in I know be continual pressure [Music]